I don’t know how many people have made the psychological expectation of “it may not be good this time” before opening the new song of Jay Chou . However, after opening it, a piano solo, and then the strings entered, they threw away all their previous thoughts and just wanted to concentrate on listening to the songs. This happened around the clock, probably starting from " Qilixiang " or even earlier. It's not just the expectation and feelings of listening to music: Huang Junlang 's lyrics, piano solo and string music, accordion 's lyrics and tributes to past times in the MV, Du Ge who appeared in the music video (Editor's note: Du Ge is Du Guozhang , Jay Chou's makeup artist and friend, participated in Jay Chou's "Mr.J Channel" and "Journey to Journey", often played roles in Jay Chou's MV, playing the painter Chang Yu this time), and even the doubts about "Jiang Lang's talent" and before the release of the new album, each entertainment forum would drag Jay Chou out to talk about everything, which was exactly the same as 20 years ago.
QQ Music platform was released, and Jay Chou's album " Greatest Work " pioneer song reached a 10 million level certification on the MV peak chart.
In today's first chapter of "The Greatest Work", you can hear the shadows of many works, including " in the name of the father" and " Night's Chapter 7 ", to " Piano Injury ", " Shoes Extra Large " and " Mojito". However, compared to self-tribute, Jay Chou obviously prefers to express himself in an unconcealed way:
"The madness of generations, the king of music, all things surrender to me, and the movement
is still breaking, and I am still creating the melody of my fingertips is longing for me."
lyrics are van Gogh, Monet , Dali, Magritte, Monk, Matisse, Chang Yu and Xu Zhimo , Jay Chou is still arrogant. Among these cute prides, we can also see the context of Jay Chou's self-expression over the years: He sang his name 22 times in the first album "Perfectionism" in "Jay", and he was born 24 times. At that time, he was born and confident that he would leave his name in the music industry; when he went to "Grandma" in "Qi Lixiang", he already had the confidence to directly criticize the Golden Melody Award; in the next album " November Chopard ", he continued to express his dissatisfaction with the side effects of fame: "I saw signs pointing to the entertainment industry on the way home. If I choose to move forward, I must be strong"; and by 2010, Chinese music scene stood at the peak for ten years, and he had a work like " Superman Can't Fly ", and he felt that he was so cold at the height.
At this moment, compared to his status in the Chinese music scene, his self-expression goes further: he hopes to become a remembered artist in cultural history, as a generation of icons (icons) and past literary and art masters - this is a long-lost sense of familiarity. What Jay Chou is most difficult to learn is not the complex flow, the genius musicality and "crazy" matter itself, but his madness does not focus on the present, but is always the future self.
screenshot of the predecessor song of the album "The Greatest Work".
However - seeing the turning point, readers may think that the author will repeat the old tune and say that he has lost all his talents. This is not the case. I believe Jay Chou is still full of talent, but what has changed is this era. Although the above mentioned the various familiarity of Jay Chou’s release of this preliminary song is for the audience, the changes still exist. Not only are the media or audiences of our listening songs beginning to diversify, but there are also the boundaries of expression.
As an audience member, I still thank Jay Chou for the familiarity brought by this new song, and still admire his stable performance in his style and level. I sincerely wish him to fulfill his long-cherished wish like every time before.
text/cantouchen (music reviewer)
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